Do you Use the single row Marquee tool. What for?

[Lynny]

Does anyone use the single row or column marquee? if so, what for? I've been playing with it on and off the past couple of days, and really can't find a use for it. I get it to make single line selections, and then for no reason I can see it'll stop working, and the selections stop showing, but if you do stroke all the places I've tryed to use it, where it didn't seem to work, get a stroke.....


Anyway I'm confusing myself here, do you use it, and if so what for, or do you know of a tutorial that just shows all sorts of things you can do with these tools.

Lynny

 

[bigcloud]

I use it occasionally when doing interface design. Comes in very handy for precise work. Also, I've found myself using it from a tutorial right here on Mark's site- http://photoshopgurus.info/intermediate/glass-buttons/real_glass_buttons.shtml (look under STEP 1 - Creating a Pinstripe Background). As for the reason you might not be seeing it... since it is only 1 pixel (high or wide) of a selection, if you're working on a high res image or you're zoomed out quite a bit, you may not see a 1 pixel selection. Not sure... just a guess.

 

[MindBender]

The one pixel marquee is great for taking out processing scratches in photo restoration. Let's say you have a photo that came out of processing and there was something on the rollers and there is now a gouge in the photo showing up as a bright line. These are usually perfectly straight since they were mechanically produced in the first place. Take the 1 pixel and make a copy next to the line, then paste it to a new layer and move it 1 pixel into the line. Do this a couple times and the line should be gone. Works for other straight objects too, but the object has to be perfectly straight for it to work.

I also would use it for creating interface patterns and such as BigCloud points out. (although for scanlines or pin-stripes, I would probably just make a pattern).

More than anything, I think it had a couple uses (more back in the day before layers and such) and it's still there for completness. It does have a couple uses, but no, to answer your question (sorta) you aren't missing out on anything major, it's just there.

 

[ljiljana]

You can find one interesting way of using a single row marquee
tool here:
http://www.psxtras.com/html/video_tutorials_pg4.html

Making a seamless pixel streach and use it in styles.

 

[Welles]

If you ever happen to purchase Human Software's Classic Frame plug-ins, you'll find that the rendered frames almost always leave a one pixel fringe of white or partial pixel row of white which is most easily adjusted with the single pixel row marquee and clone tool. Pretty obscure but very handy.

 

[Lynny]

Ok thank you very much for the reply's, I just played with stretching pixels, and can see the use for scanlines,

I was hopeing it had some other fun use.

Oh well.....

 

[C9Mouse]

I use the single row and column marquees in a lot of my work, including tutorials. They are quite useful for making things like web page backgrounds, like this one for instance:

http://www.dcloud.com/tutorials/grid.htm

There are of course many more uses. Just check any search engine, like Google.